“I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.” ThinkingWayCountryImagineLonelinessIslandsIsolationDislikeSwedish Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews
“I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.” MadeCountryUniverseDogLonelinessAngst Author:William Shatner
“as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.” WorldPersonsCountryAbleLawCan DoCitiesLonelinessSolitudeMapsDictatorUp To YouObedientYour Freedom Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.” MenCountryFeltKnownLonelinessDiscoveryRootsRelationRace RelationsDistressing Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition
“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.” CountryHappensTogetherLonelinessTelevisionPrincipalBeing LonelyContributors Author:Ashley Montagu
“My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.” MenFirstsCountryPastMotherFeltNovelLandLonelinessDaughterAcknowledgeContinentsTigersMy Past Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.” PeopleCountryCitiesLonelinessQuietLonelyBeing LonelyLonesome Author:Geoffrey Fisher
“In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, anger, grief, despair, and that terrible, terrible loneliness. What was it about? I was hardly alone. I loved my husband and son. I had great friends, colleagues, students. In the quiet, in the extra hours, I was forced to ask the question, and to listen carefully to the answer: I was lonely for myself. [p. 123]” WellsPersonsCountryAsksWaitingHoursAnswersGriefKnownLonelinessStudentsSonGrewTerribleQuietHusbandDespairAnxietyLonelyCalmExtrasFuelMy HusbandColleaguesGreat FriendCalmer Author:Dani Shapiro